Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Overcoming Middle-Market Sales Hurdles
By Philip K. Polkington, FSAThe middle market represents an estimated $10.2 trillion opportunity for producers, but with an unconvinced, non-buying public, reaping that reward wont be easy. Heres how to leap over the obstacles in your path.
September 20, 2012
Will small caps survive over the long haul?In a year thats been generally kind to all sorts of stocks, small caps have been possibly stronger than any other category.
September 20, 2012
Serving your clients with life insuranceInflation and market risks are well known to most clients. The risk of going without life insurance, though, isn't.
September 20, 2012
Serving your clients with life insuranceInflation and market risks are well known to most clients. The risk of going without life insurance, though, isn't.
September 20, 2012
Death takes a policy: How a lawyer exploited the fine print and found himself facing Federal chargesSociety has long frowned on certain behaviors. Taking out an insurance policy on a friend or neighbor and killing them? Not acceptable. Taking out a life insurance policy that gambles your neighbor will die soon, even without your help, also crosses the line.
September 20, 2012
The fiscal cliff, in three and a half graphicsWe're heading for a "fiscal cliff," but what does that mean, exactly? NPR provides a simple, visual breakdown of the impending tax increases and spending cuts.
September 20, 2012
Forget about those good signs in EuropeDon't let the recent market gains fool you, Europe is still a financial mess.
September 20, 2012
A Washington whistle-blower tells allA new book has burned every bridge its author once had in Washington and it's well worth the read.